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The best the novel of the year written in Russian, in the opinion of the jury literary Russian Booker Prize “,” recognized novel of the future “2017″ Olga Slavnikovoy. Selection of the jury did not unexpected. Name the winner in the professional environment has long been on everyone’s mouths.

The jury this year joined critic Dmitry Bak, Timur Kibirov poet, novelist from Krasnoyarsk Roman Solntsev, a journalist Svetlana Sorokina, and chaired by novelist Alexander Kabakov. “Booker” The purpose is to attract public attention to the serious reading prose.

Effects of the novel “2017″ takes place in the Urals, where the centennial of the October Revolution power suit costume ball, pererastayuschy in serious disorder. “This is the present novel, that is not a piece of life, what can be a story, agenda and the whole entire life,” said writer Alexander Kabakov.

Slavnikova Olga was born in Yekaterinburg, it is a journalist by profession. Now Slavnikova coordinator of the independent youth Literary Award “debut”. Her piece “Strekoza increased to the size of dogs” was included in the M “Booker Prize” in 1996. “Honestly I can say that Russian literature has grown strongly over these 10 years. Short of this year, I just I assure you, professionalney much, much worse, much hudozhestvennee that was then, “recalled his first nomination Slavnikova Olga.

shortlisted candidates win also included Peter Aleshkovsky (Novel “Fish”), Zahar Prilepin ( “Sankya”), Dina Rubin ( “At the solar side of the street”), Denis Sobolev ( “Jerusalem”), Alan Cherchesov (Bel-Letra “Villa”).

“Russian Booker Prize” was established in December 1991 on the model of the English prize to encourage authors writing in Russian. Her winners in different years from becoming Bulat Okudzhava, Mikhail Shishkin, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Georgy Vladimov. As of this year, the amount of premiums increased from 15 to 20 thousand dollars for the winner of the competition, the remaining five finalists, as in previous years, will receive one thousand dollars.